Sunday’s Prayer Card That Floored Me

Sunday, we had a time when people could come down to the front in our services and fill out a card that said, “God, if only You could…” and they were to fill in the prayer request. This morning, our staff started going through the huge stack of prayer requests.  When I got the stack from the stage, the one …

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Storytellers – Nothing is Impossible

Yesterday, we introduced a new song to North Side called “Nothing is Impossible.”  My lovely wife sang the lead on it and sang her face off!  This song has been our worship song and prayer over the last year in our family, and it was such an honor to share it with our church family yesterday. We still believe that …

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Help Us Make Disciples

What a great day at North Side!  Jeff threw a bomb on us again this morning as we went through the “Dear God” series. Jesus defined Christianity by a simple phrase: “make disciples.”  How much of that actually takes place in our lives?  Jesus’ call was not for an institution to do that, but we, as individual believers, are to …

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3 Essentials for a Humble Worship Team

Worship is all about God. Whenever we serve in a manner to get attention for ourselves, we are attempting to rob God of his glory. People who are called to lead others in worship must be bent on leading humbly before God and his people. In the humility department of leading worship, I believe 3 things are absolutely key: Genuine Faith – …

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New northsidebc.org (Coming Soon)

Our staff and interns have been feverishly working on the new North Side website and we are almost finished!  We stepped back and evaluated our website a while back, and realized a few things.  It was too busy, it wasn’t easily navigated, and it was missing some key components. So we went back to the drawing board, developed a new …

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Favorite Book? Scariest Book?

1 Bible but it has 66 books in it. You have your favorite.  Maybe it’s the simplicity of James or the poetry of Psalms. But you also have the books you avoid.  Maybe your rule is – if you can’t pronounce it, you are scared to read it. I want to hear from you: favorite book to read and scariest …

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Dear God, Make Us One

This second week in the “Dear God” series we heard Jeff’s 2nd prayer for our church: “Dear God, make us one.”  In a church, truth, convictions, and preferences are always present.  Unfortunately, we normally focus on our preferences or convictions more than we do the truth.  If our church is truly to become one, we must lay aside our preferences …

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Overcome – Recording Week 1

We started recording for “Overcome” this week!  I uploaded all loops and finalized all arrangements with Anthony Gravley.  I laid down scratch guitars and vocals on all tracks to serve as a guide.  Jamie has started to come in and lay down some sick beats!  Here’s a video for you to enjoy to update you of our progress – please …

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I’m Enrolling You in Seminary

That’s right – I’m sending you back to school! Maybe you won’t be able to enroll in seminary, but have you ever had a subject in Christianity that you wanted to go deeper in? Have you ever wanted to know more about a certain subject? Have you ever wanted questions clarified about a subject in our faith? If so, I …

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